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The labs, the money, and what enterprises are actually doing.
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- Newsletter SoN 2.30: Which of your AI's rules are still doing a job?
- Insight OpenAI Published Its Homework on Exactly the Question I Keep Asking
- Insight Does the AI Capital Spend Actually Pencil Out?
- Newsletter SoN 2.29: Agents reading your passwords? Would you let them?
- Insight The ACM's Caution About LLMs Is Starting to Have a Cost
- Insight Substack Writers, You Need a Website
- Insight Stop Guessing Whether AI Is Coming for Your Job. Ask the Data.
- Field Note Field Note: Tell AI What You Want and Who You Are
- Newsletter SoN 2.28: "That's good, how can we make it better?"
- Field Note Field Note: The model of the week changes by Thursday
- Newsletter SoN 2.26: The best AI models are getting harder to get
- Field Note Field Note: What I Automate with AI
- Field Note Field Note: Fable: here in an instant, then gone
- Newsletter SoN 2.23: Google says you can skip the 'AEO' hacks
- Field Note Field Note: The most powerful Claude yet — and the part you can't have
- Field Note Field Note: WWDC26 Keynote Thoughts
- Newsletter SoN 2.20: Technology, Not a Product (Free Edition)
- Newsletter SoN 2.17: You Can't Cost-Reduce Yourself to Greatness (Free Edition)
- Newsletter SoN 2.15: Ask your AI to Ask You Questions (Free Edition)
- Insight 97% Expect a Breach. 6% Are Paying for It.
- Insight Anthropic Didn't Block Abuse. They Blocked Competition.
- Insight Claude Code Channels: When Your Agent Gets a Phone Number
- Insight "Agentic" Is the New Cloud
- Insight MCP Just Crossed the Chasm
- Insight The Safety Company Keeps Leaking
- Insight The Promises Failed, Not the Technology
- Insight The New Shadow IT Isn't Employees Using ChatGPT
- Insight Codex Plugins Are a Confession About Who's Winning
- Insight Your AI Provider's Ethics Are Now a Business Risk
- Insight Your AI Just Learned to Approve Its Own Actions
- Insight Your Agents Need a Black Box
- Insight The Yes Machine Gets a Live Demo
- Insight When Cisco Validates Your CLAUDE.md
- Insight Sora Shipped. Nobody Needed It.
- Insight 4.4 Million People Just Watched the Sycophancy Problem in Action
- Insight Someone Finally Built the Agent Security Layer That Actually Matters
- Insight 82% of Execs Feel Protected. 88% Have Had Incidents.
- Insight Perplexity Is Learning What I Learned Six Months Ago
- Insight When Knuth Writes a Paper About You
- Insight The Attack Surface Is the Feature
- Insight AI Agent Security Is Doing the Deploy-First Thing Again
- Insight WordPress Just Opened the Floodgates
- Insight The Wrench Is Now on Your Phone
- Insight The Vuln That Hits Before You Add Any Integrations
- Insight Meta's Rogue Agent Was Just a Human Who Trusted Bad Advice
- Insight Box Is Using Moltbook as a Sales Pitch. That's Smart.
- Insight Proofpoint Just Built Security for MCP. That Tells You Everything.
- Insight Anthropic's Off-Peak Promotion Tells You Where AI Pricing Is Headed
- Insight Harvard Identified Seven Frictions That Kill AI Rollouts. You Probably Have All Seven.
- Insight Meta Is Gutting Itself to Fund AI Bets That Aren't Working Yet
- Insight Anthropic Just Made Long Context a Commodity
- Insight Anthropic's $100M Partner Network Is the Enterprise Playbook OpenAI Should Have Run
- Insight 83% of Companies Plan to Deploy AI Agents. 29% Can Secure Them.
- Insight The EU Just Gave You More Time on AI Compliance. The Requirements Got Harder.
- Insight Agents Reviewing Agent-Generated Code Is Either Brilliant or a House of Cards
- Insight Microsoft Spent $13B on OpenAI, Then Built Cowork on Claude
- Insight An AI Agent Hacked McKinsey's AI With a 25-Year-Old Exploit
- Insight OpenAI Took the Pentagon Deal. What's Your Exit Plan?
- Insight Copilot Has 3.3% Adoption and 116% ROI. Both Numbers Are Real.
- Insight Claude 3.5 Haiku, 3.7 Sonnet, GPT-4o: The Deprecation Wave Is Here
- Insight Google's VP Said It Out Loud: LLM Wrappers Face Extinction
- Insight Cloudflare Collapsed 2,500 API Endpoints Into 2 MCP Tools. Token Economics Matter.
- Insight OpenClaw's Demand Surge: When Infrastructure Collapses, You're Seeing Real Need
- Insight Everyone's Sharing 'Something Big Is Happening.' Here's What They Leave Out.
- Insight Claude in Excel Is the Quiet Revolution
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 3: The Metric Mandate
- Insight The 'Selfware' Panic Is Missing the Point
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 2: The Art of Breaking Things Down
- Newsletter SoN 31: The AI Productivity Treadmill
- Newsletter SoN 30: Four Questions That Fix Your Prompts
- Newsletter SoN 24: The AI Stack Audit
- Newsletter SoN 23: One Year of Writing About AI
- Newsletter SoN 22: How to Write AI Instructions That Actually Work
- Newsletter SoN 21: The AI Capability Trap
- Insight The 95% AI Failure Rate Nobody's Talking About (And What to Do About It)
- Insight How AI Changed My Build vs. Buy Process
- Insight Why I Moved My Newsletter to Wednesdays (And You Should Optimize Your Timing Too)
- Insight GPT-5 Reality Check: Why Your Framework Matters More Than the Latest Model
- Insight Why Your AI Prompts Aren’t Working (And How to Fix Them)
- Insight Real Stories: AI Success in Content Management
- Insight Navigating the AI Assistant Landscape: Finding What Works for You
- Insight Why Claude Is My New Digital Co-Pilot
- Insight Could a 4-Day Work Week Be Your Future?
- Insight Why AI-Powered Search Is Replacing Google
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #012: AI web search, OpenAI's Whisper, Qwen AI and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #009: A Jim-GPT to make your prompt creation easier, testing OpenAI's text-to-video model and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #008: Blogging in 2025, the homogenisation of online content and testing out a cool new AI app for iPad.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #007: Data vis in Claude, new service launch, what AI is saying about you and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #004: First AI services available, Notion Marketplace and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #003: Updates on Perplexity, Claude’s Anthropic, reflections on creating my “digital twin” and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #001: New product launch, retooling the tech stack and more.